Another Wii-injury

This story starts off with our friend Sam, newly free from B-school finals, coming over to play the Wii and bringing his new toy, Mario Kart. It ends with another Wii-injury for Lelaine.

For those of you who do not know, the game that started my so-called "gamer lifestyle" was Burnout Revenge, pretty much the best racing game out there. I had a few days off of work in 2005 and we had just gotten the new flat screen, so I bought Chris the nice (and expensive) cables for the Xbox to get HD quality like picture and a few games that I saw sold well on Amazon. One of them happened to be Burnout Revenge and I was overdosing on hurricane coverage so I decided to try playing the racing game. A few hours later I realized that I hadn't moved positions and my arms and legs were stiff and the rest, as they say, is history.

Fast forward to 2008 and my preview of Mario Kart. It's best features are that you get to hit people in order to win and there is a turbo acceleration feature just like Burnout. So, yesterday when I was in the vicinity of Best Buy I had to buy it for myself. In a bit of deja vu, a few hours later, the same stiff and sore arms except a cooler name called a Wii-injury.